Awards & Winners

Michel Deville

Date of Birth 13-April-1931
Place of Birth Boulogne-Billancourt
(Hauts-de-Seine, ÃŽle-de-France, France)
Nationality France
Profession Film director, Screenwriter, Poet
Michel Deville is a French film director and screenwriter. Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France. One of Deville's comedies, La Lectrice was probably his biggest success with international audiences. La Lectrice is about a woman, who finds work reading novels for the blind but gradually finds herself unwittingly attracting a clientele of fetishists who enjoyed being read to. At one time his films were difficult to find in North America but presently seven of his films are available in DVD in the U.S. His 1980 film Le Voyage en douce was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. Five years later, his film Death in a French Garden was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.

Awards by Michel Deville

Check all the awards nominated and won by Michel Deville.

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
César Award for Best Director Sachs' Disease
César Award for Best Writing Sachs' Disease

1989


Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
César Award for Best Director The Reader
César Award for Best Film The Reader
César Award for Best Writing The Reader

1986


César Award for Best Director
Honored for : Peril

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
César Award for Best Director Peril
César Award for Best Film Peril
César Award for Best Writing Peril

1979


César Award for Best Writing
Honored for : Le dossier 51

Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
César Award for Best Director Le dossier 51
César Award for Best Film Le dossier 51
César Award for Best Writing Le dossier 51